… number of behavioral studies have demonstrated that although depression in one family member prompts negative feelings from other family members, it nonetheless appears to deter their aggressive behavior and to cause an increase in their tendency to offer solutions to problems in a positive or neutral tone and an increase in their solicitous behavior (e.g., caring statements), consistent with the bargaining model…

… he spouses of individuals experiencing PPD should report increasing their investment in parenting, and in fact they do…

Uno dice: è il suicidio?

Il suicidio non è efficace ma il suicidio minacciato è efficacissimo…

… How can suicide be functional? It can’t be. But suicide threats can be highly functional… Suicide permanently removes oneself as a source of valuable benefits for the group. Suicide threats are therefore threats to impose substantial costs…